Can It Really Be Taught?: Resisting Lore in Creative Writing Pedagogy by Kelly Ritter, Stephanie Vanderslice, Stephanie Vanderslice (Editor), Stephanie Vanderslice (Editor)

Acknowledgments     ix
Introduction: Creative Writing and the Persistence of "Lore"   Kelly Ritter   Stephanie Vanderslice     xi
Lore's Cradle: Creative Writing and the Academy
Figuring the Future: Lore and/in Creative Writing   Tim Mayers     1
Against Reading   Katherine Haake     14
Charming Tyrants and Faceless Facilitators: The Lore of Teaching Identities in Creative Writing   Mary Ann Cain     28
Inside the Creative Writing Classroom: Lore Resisted and Perpetuated
"A Better Time Teaching": A Dialogue About Pedagogy and the Antioch-LA MFA   David Starkey   Eloise Klein Healy     38
Both Sides of the Desk: Experiencing Creative Writing Lore as a Student and as a Professor   Priscila Uppal     46
Creativity, Caring, and The Easy "A": Rethinking the Role of Self-Esteem in Creative Writing Pedagogy   Anna Leahy     55
Bestsellers and Blockbusters: Lore and Popular Culture
Writing In Public: Popular Pedagogies of Creative Writing   Michelle Cross     67
Putting Wings on the Invisible: Voice, Authorship and the Authentic Self   Patrick Bizzaro   Michael McClanahan     77
Box Office Poison: The Influence of Writers in Films on Writers (in Graduate Programs)   Wendy Bishop   Stephen Armstrong     91
After Words: Lore and Discipline   Peter Vandenberg     105
Appendix     111